The New Girl is a classic, short horror story written in 1989 by R.L. Stine, acclaimed author of the Goosebumps series. My experience with this book… wasn’t great. Starting from the very beginning, the main character, a high school male gymnast named Cory, comes off as a very desperate creep, making him highly…
In the Wild Light is easily one of the most heart-warming and wholesome stories you’ll ever read. The story follows two main characters named Delaney and Cash, who are both around the age of high school juniors and hail from Sawyer, a small rural town in Tennessee. Delaney, a genius…
TW: Violence The Grace Year is a classic example of, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” What’s unique about this book is that readers never truly know when the story takes place, although I got the overall sense of it taking place either back in the medieval Europe era…
Night by Elie Wiesel is a gripping tale that explores the core of what it means to be human and the struggle to survive against an overwhelming, malevolent force. In this powerful memoir, Wiesel recounts his experiences during the Holocaust as a Jewish teen simply hoping to survive and stay together with his…
Crave is a pure YA romance novel –don’t let the cover deceive you. Yeah sure, it might have a bit of a fantasy and even realistic fiction feel to it, but the entire book is centered around two central characters of the story, our female and male protagonists who are named…
“A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country… There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping an not symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success… in…
They Wish They Were Us is a mystery/suspense novel that reminded me an awful lot of the book A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. The plots are eerily similar to a certain point, except I’d argue that A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder gets the job of navigating through its plot better.…
TW: Suicide, Mental Health Issues The Midnight Library left me in a highly dazed and somewhat philosophical state. This is one of those books that really makes you THINK. Our main character is Nora, a 30-year-oldish woman who feels dissatisfied and unrewarded by life. In the somewhat moderately sized opening section of the…
Warning: This book contains sensitive topics such as suicide and sexual assault. After the Ink Dries is a deeply moving, evocative novel that tells the story of a 16-year-old girl named Erica Walker who is sexually assaulted one night at a party by her boyfriend and some of his fellow…
Life As We Knew It is your classic sort-of apocalypse novel. Its main character is Miranda, a 16/17-year-old girl, who must get through the array of extreme hardships brought upon by nature with her family when a large asteroid strikes the moon and alters its orbit. To give you the…
